American Western and Military Art
May 2026
These objects are connected through their depiction of American frontier life, military subjects, and Western themes, primarily from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with several works appearing to be by Frederic Remington based on characteristic titles and subjects.
37 objects · 4 institutions
"As They Threw their Animals Back upon their Haunches," illustration for An Arabian Day and Night, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
A Mexican Vaquero
Art Institute of Chicago
1890
Ceremony of the Fastest Horse
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1900
Coming Through the Rye (Over the Range)
Art Institute of Chicago
Modeled 1902, cast in bronze 1902–6
Emblems for Royal Crown Lodge No. 22
Art Institute of Chicago
1810–15
First and Best Camp of the Trip
Art Institute of Chicago
1895
Historians of the Tribe
Art Institute of Chicago
1890–99
How the Horses Died for Their Country at Santiago
Art Institute of Chicago
1899
I Will Tell the White Man
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1900
Nothing But Cheerful Looks Followed the Bat
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1900
Paddling the Wounded British Officer
Art Institute of Chicago
1897
Power of Death
Harvard Art Museums
c. 1889-1890
Rushing Red Lodges Passed through the Line
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1900
Slave Market
Art Institute of Chicago
1893
The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush)
Art Institute of Chicago
1890
The Bronco Buster
Art Institute of Chicago
Modeled 1895, cast 1899
The Bronco Buster
Art Institute of Chicago
Modeled 1909, cast 1912
The Captive Slave
Art Institute of Chicago
published 1827
The Captive Slave (Ira Aldridge)
Art Institute of Chicago
1827
The Fire Eater Raised His Arms to the Thunder Bird
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1900
The Fire-Eater Slung His Victim Across His Pony
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1900
The Interpreter Waved at the Youth
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1900
The Mexican Major
Art Institute of Chicago
1889
The Old Dragoons of 1850
Art Institute of Chicago
Modeled 1905, cast 1906–7
The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1896–1908
The Rattlesnake
Art Institute of Chicago
Modeled 1905, cast 1918
The Slave Market
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Slave Market
Art Institute of Chicago
1629
The Slave Market
Cleveland Museum of Art
1629
The Slave Market
Art Institute of Chicago
1629
The Slave Market
Cleveland Museum of Art
1629
The Slave Market
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The White Slave Trade
Art Institute of Chicago
1886, printed 1909
This Was a Fatal Embarkation
Art Institute of Chicago
1898
Trooper of the Plains
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1908, cast before 1939
Trooper of the Plains-1868
Cleveland Museum of Art
modeled 1908, cast c. 1911
Why Born Enslaved!
Cleveland Museum of Art
1867